| Evasive balancing: India's unviable Indo-Pacific strategy R Rajagopalan International Affairs 96 (1), 75-93, 2020 | 137 | 2020 |
| India's strategic choices: China and the balance of power in Asia R Rajagopalan Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2017 | 76 | 2017 |
| Second strike: Arguments about nuclear war in South Asia R Rajagopalan Viking, 2005 | 65 | 2005 |
| India: Foreign policy perspectives of an ambiguous power DM Ollapally, R Rajagopalan Worldviews of aspiring powers: Domestic foreign policy debates in China …, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| Fighting like a guerrilla: The Indian Army and counterinsurgency R Rajagopalan Routledge India, 2020 | 57 | 2020 |
| The pragmatic challenge to Indian foreign policy D Ollapally, R Rajagopalan The Washington Quarterly 34 (2), 145-162, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |
| India and the great powers: Strategic imperatives, normative necessities R Rajagopalan, V Sahni South Asian Survey 15 (1), 5-32, 2008 | 50 | 2008 |
| ‘Restoring normalcy’: The evolution of the Indian army's counterinsurgency doctrine R Rajagopalan Small Wars & Insurgencies 11 (1), 44-68, 2000 | 49 | 2000 |
| Innovations in counterinsurgency: the Indian Army's Rashtriya Rifles R Rajagopalan Contemporary South Asia 13 (1), 25-37, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| Neorealist theory and the India‐Pakistan conflict‐II R Rajagopalan Strategic Analysis 22 (10), 1525-1536, 1999 | 36 | 1999 |
| Neorealist theory and the India‐Pakistan conflict‐I R Rajagopalan Strategic Analysis 22 (9), 1261-1272, 1998 | 36 | 1998 |
| India’s nuclear doctrine debate R Rajagopalan Carnegie Endowment Fund for International Peace 30, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| What Stability-Instability Paradox? Subnational Conflicts and the Nuclear Risk in South Asia R Rajagopalan SASSU research paper 4 (5), 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Force and compromise: India's counter-insurgency grand strategy R Rajagopalan South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 30 (1), 75-91, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| India: the logic of assured retaliation R Rajagopalan The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia, 202, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
| Nuclear South Asia: Keywords and concepts R Rajagopalan, A Mishra Routledge India, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| India’s Nuclear Policy R Rajagopalan Major Power’s Nuclear Policies and International Order in the 21st Century …, 2009 | 19 | 2009 |
| US-India Relations under President Trump: Promise and Peril R Rajagopalan Asia Policy 24 (1), 39-45, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| The threat of unintended use of nuclear weapons in South Asia R Rajagopalan India Review 4 (2), 214-232, 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| Did India Lose China? R Rajagopalan The Washington Quarterly 42 (1), 71-87, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
